Pith Number

pith:VAOYIHII

pith:2001:VAOYIHIILZUDMVCE2C53ZK4F57

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

GRB 000418: A Hidden Jet Revealed?

A. Diercks, D. A. Frail, D. M. Terndrup, E. Berger, E. Mazets, G. B. Taylor, G. Pooley, J. Halpern, J. S. Bloom, K. Hurley, K. M. Becker, N. Mirabal, R. M. Wagner, R. Sari, S. R. Kulkarni, T. Cline, T. Statler

arxiv:astro-ph/0102278 v1 · 2001-02-15 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAOYIHIILZUDMVCE2C53ZK4F57}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:22:44.151596Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a81d841d085e68365444d0bbbcab85effbcef261a8a2d29d2c9beabef7fcd245

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0102278 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0102278v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0102278 · pith_short_12: VAOYIHIILZUD · pith_short_16: VAOYIHIILZUDMVCE · pith_short_8: VAOYIHII

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VAOYIHIILZUDMVCE2C53ZK4F57 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a81d841d085e68365444d0bbbcab85effbcef261a8a2d29d2c9beabef7fcd245

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b90a381e32cad01d4045c154e4e68988bcee002c3046ae94c408b08a07e33c58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-02-15T17:33:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c6e8ea4449e44ef55113136655627da7741611e90a500f1035e1e06391e4a72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0102278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}